“Cursed is the ground because of you”:

Constant Connectivity: Just Because You Can Doesn't Mean You Should

Because of Science You Also Die...; Comment on “Quaternary Prevention, an Answer of Family Doctors to Over Medicalization”

The concept of quaternary prevention (P4) refers to the idea that medicine has acquired the ability to damage through the proper exercise. Family medicine or general practice has the duty of recovering the ethical values and the exercise of a profession with the doctor-patient relationship serving to people’s humanity. In the fourth Congress of Family and Community Medicine, held in Montevideo ...

Cursed Equilibrium

There is evidence that people do not fully take into account how other people’s actions are contingent on these others’ information. This paper deÞnes and applies a new equilibrium concept in games with private information, cursed equilibrium, which assumes that each player correctly predicts the distribution of other players’ actions, but underestimates the degree to which these actions are co...

Phenotypic resistance in mycobacteria: is it because I am old or fat that I resist you?

OBJECTIVES We aimed to explore the phenomenon of phenotypic resistance to antimycobacterial antibiotics and to determine whether this was associated with cell age or the presence of lipid bodies. METHODS The accumulation of lipid-body-positive [lipid-rich (LR)] cells was followed using cell staining and flow cytometry. LR cells of Mycobacterium smegmatis, Mycobacterium marinum, Mycobacterium ...

Learning Foundation for the Cursed Equilibrium

Recent literature has questioned the existence of a learning foundation for the partially cursed equilibrium. This paper closes the gap by showing that a partially cursed equilibrium corresponds to a particular analogybased expectation equilibrium.